Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Summer is Winding Down #bookgiveaway

It's been blazing hot on and off this summer, with high humidity, muggy air that makes it feel ten degrees hotter. But, stuff needs to get done: yard work, cleaning, work, family events, cooking for those family events... I find it all a tad more tedious when the mercury climbs.

However, there are days that make up for it. Once in a while I'll have a day when I know there is very little to be done, or when Jocie is off with her cousins and Jakob is working, so I'll find a spot in the shade - Jocie's treehouse is actually a great spot for that, or if we're at the Queensville house an Adirondack chair in the shade - and Hoppy and I will just hang out, while I read a book. Other times we head to the beach, and while Jocie plays in the sand, building a sand castle with Jakob, I lie on a towel and read.
Ah... there is nothing like sinking into a book, is there? It's like a cool bath for the brain.

I favor historical romances, especially set in the Regency period. I got started on them because I have a friend who writes them, Melody Heath. We went to university (where we met) together and she introduced me to some of my favorite authors, like Mary Balogh, Jo Beverly and Mary Jo Putney, among others.

So, my reading friends... do you carve out time in summer just for reading? A whole day? Part of a day? Every afternoon?

Tell me, please!

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It's the last weeks of summer, so let's do a...

GIVEAWAY!

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Enter by Midnight, August 24th to win!

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I try to read in the 3-5 pm block. Or in the morning. The mate has a weird schedule, and we have to do things when he is off. So I have to get in reading when he is at work. I need silence. And I have tried reading outside but its been a muggy humid summer here too. My email is philski155a at (AOL) (DOT) com

When I get a book book (a print book) in the mail, I always sit down pretty quick and at least give it a start. Ebooks take the edge off when I have to stand in the hot and humid kitchen (for little things like, oh, cooking), so I don't have to think about where I am...if that makes sense. :)

It's not so much that I carve out a time to read, but rather that life dictates it to me (but I'm more than fine with that because any chance to read is a good time). I have some medical issues with muscles and joints that some days I know nothing but what has to will get done because it's just too painful. Weather, humidity and how much I strained the day before all play into it. When I have a bad spell, I have to get my must be done things done in spurts. In between, I read - both because I really enjoy it and because it distracts the brain off the pain and onto fun and exciting things between the pages of the book I'm reading.2clowns at arkansas dot net

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